Jesus
climbed into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town. Some
people brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said
to the paralyzed man, “Be encouraged, my child! Your sins are forgiven.”
But some of the teachers of religious law said to themselves,
“That’s blasphemy! Does he think he’s God?”
Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why
do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts? Is it easier to say
‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up and walk’? So I will prove to
you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then
Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, “Stand up, pick up your mat,
and go home!”
And the man jumped up and went home! Fear swept through the
crowd as they saw this happen. And they praised God for giving humans such
authority.
As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting
at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus
said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.
Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as
dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. But
when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher
eat with such scum?”
When Jesus heard this, he said, “Healthy people don’t need a
doctor—sick people do.” Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this
Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to
call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are
sinners.”
One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and
asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast like we do and the Pharisees
do?”
Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests mourn while celebrating
with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from
them, and then they will fast.
“Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the
new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger
tear than before.
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the old skins
would burst from the pressure, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New
wine is stored in new wineskins so that both are preserved.”
~ Source : Matthew 9:1-17
[Holy Bible -NLT] taken from https://www.biblegateway.com
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